Two historians, GD Scholtz and H Giliomee, have written extensively about liberal
political thought among Afrikaners during the period 1775-1975. Their interpretations
of the influence of liberalism on Afrikaner political ...

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During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a number of European countries founded settlements on the American and African continents. The colonizing powers sent settlers from Europe and slaves from Africa ...

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Scholars who specialize in local or regional history study the characteristics and development of a society on a micro-level. These characteristics include demographic, economic, social, political, juridical, ...

During the period 1650 to 1800 the Dutch colony at the Cape expanded
gradually, to include, ultimately, almost the western half of South Africa.
Studies about this period in South African history deal mainly with the ...

The Algemeen-Nederlands Verbond (“General Dutch Union”), an international society for the promotion of the Dutch language and culture, has been active in South Africa since its foundation in 1895, and a branch of this ...

During the last few decades scholars from various disciplines, such as
paleonthology, archeology, anthropology and linguistics, have steadily increased
our knowledge of early South African history. Historians are dependent ...